Wednesday, December 20, 2006

The Omega Man Knows How To Love

Here's a Christmas gift from me to you:

Do Not Watch The Omega Man

I checked out this 1971 sci-fi flick hoping for an updated rendition of the beautifully creepy "The Last Man On Earth" starring Vincent Price. I dig Charlton Heston. Planet of the Apes was cool. I'm still looking forward to Soylent Green.

Great Scott, The Omega Man was awful. Take leftover hippy rhetoric, mix it with campy violence and touches of blaxploitation motifs, add a wholly inappropriate score, and you've got your Omega Man. "Man, the government's out to kill us, man. It's our love of technology which is destroying our inner soul child, brother." I get it. The crazy part is, the preaching is coming from the "bad guys" which are just downright goofy. They're like Batman thugs that are pulling down a job for Egghead.



See, they're mutants 'cause they see in the dark.

I'm just bitter because I actually wanted this movie to be good.

Another item on the "Reasons I Hate The Seventies" list.

Go see The Last Man on Earth instead.